I don't know much about space engineering, but wouldn't it have been possible to send one of these russian Soyuz pods they use to supply the ISS ?
No, because a Soyuz can hold three people at maximum and there were seven astronauts on Columbia. I seriously doubt the Russians have even one, let alone two or three Soyuzes close to launch-ready status at a time.
You've never done tech-support for someone like my uncle? Back in the day, I set up his laptop with a nice custom MS-DOS 6.22 boot-menu system that could load all the programs he used. Then a couple weeks later, he installed something else, tried to update the boot menu, fscked it up, wiped the hard drive, and reinstalled. No backups.
So I redid the boot menu. Almost as nice, with the extra program installed. A couple weeks later, he does the same thing.
This time I tried to restore from a q&d backup I'd done on a 720kb floppy (/old/ laptop - 640KB RAM, 20MB hard drive, NEC V30 CPU, monochrome CGA graphics). The floppy had decided to fail on me, as floppies do, so I ginned up a quick&dirty setup that loaded Tandy Deskmate and told him to just load his programs from that.
After another couple incidents of such idiocy from him, I refused to go over to his place anymore. OTOH, I/did/ get the pleasure of regularly kicking his ass on Doom deathmatch - I used to be a really good keyboarder.
"MP3" isn't necessarily a good name either. Used to be, when someone mentioned them, I thought they were talking about some kind of German machine-pistol, like the MP5.
Of course, the Nazi's had everyone beat with their ME-262 Komet - a rocket powered blended wing fighter-interceptor.
Bullshit yourself. Firstly, the Me 262 was a twin-jet fighter of conventional layout. Second, it was called either Schwalbe or Sturmvogel, depending on if it could carry bombs. Thirdly, the Germans did had a flying-wing fighter prototype, but it was called the Horten Ho 229 and used twin jets.
"If it doesn't spit out an error message, it must be done correctly, right?"
Well, that IS how they teach people to do it in college...
Not at my university. I was taught to write code that did one thing, then immediately write a module to interactively test that chunk of code, including with nonsense input. We were to keep at it until all the logic and compiler errors were gone from that bit, then do the next thing.
Betcha MS will cut Office prices to compete, like they did vs. SmartSuite and PerfectOffice in the mid-'90s. How's Office going for around $150 again sound?
That would annoy the crap out of me to have to wait four days to get my isos.
Oh, cry me a river. It won't kill you to wait for something wholly unnecessary. But I'm probably biased because I clearly remember the days of 2400 and 14400 bps modem connections.
I've tried the MS Natural and it's lovely, but it lacks the *feel* of a classic IBM Model M. The M, for its age, is quite ergonomic - the board is concaved a bit to make reaching keys easier, and there's none of this smacking keys because you can't tell if they've been hit. Plus they're rated to last for 25 million keystrokes, vs 10 million for a "standard" board.
They're cheap, too. Look around flea markets for old models. My first was $5 US, the other three $2.50 each. Or if you must have new ones, check Unicomp, and look at the Customizer.
To be paranoid: Cutting off the Asian (and esp. China) because of spam may be exactly what the Chinese government wants - cf. their national firewall. Maybe agents of their government are behind much of the spam, or are forbidding ISPs from doing anything about it.
(this'll probably get me modded down by the anti-microsoft zealots that refuse to accept that a microsoft product is superior to something else, I don't like Microsoft any more than you do, I'm simply informing the public that IE is not as unstable as people belive.)
Ah, method #3 of karma-whoring - claiming that saying X will get you modded down, especially in reference to MS. Glad to see it worked. --
Because it's often more convenient to just type in a command at the shell prompt when you know exactly which package you need (e.g. apt-get install python).
Damn, you kids are spoiled these days, expecting to have menus and coherent lists of things. In my day we 23$($*%NO CARRIER --
I too had problems with DNS on my Debian 2.2 system, at least after the luser admins at my university's IS department upgraded the DHCP server, thus breaking my dhcp service (and everyone's, for a while). I wasn't the only student Debian user affected this way (hi Keith!), but most of the Windows boxen on campus were ultimately resurrected. I and my friend ended up having to covertly give ourselves static IPs.
Perchance does Mandrake install a dhcp or bootp client by default? I have a sneaking suspicion that those wankers at the Uni switched to bootp without telling anyone. --
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Let the flamewars begin. Why did the editors post this shit?
You've never done tech-support for someone like my uncle? Back in the day, I set up his laptop with a nice custom MS-DOS 6.22 boot-menu system that could load all the programs he used. Then a couple weeks later, he installed something else, tried to update the boot menu, fscked it up, wiped the hard drive, and reinstalled. No backups.
/did/ get the pleasure of regularly kicking his ass on Doom deathmatch - I used to be a really good keyboarder.
So I redid the boot menu. Almost as nice, with the extra program installed. A couple weeks later, he does the same thing.
This time I tried to restore from a q&d backup I'd done on a 720kb floppy (/old/ laptop - 640KB RAM, 20MB hard drive, NEC V30 CPU, monochrome CGA graphics). The floppy had decided to fail on me, as floppies do, so I ginned up a quick&dirty setup that loaded Tandy Deskmate and told him to just load his programs from that.
After another couple incidents of such idiocy from him, I refused to go over to his place anymore. OTOH, I
"MP3" isn't necessarily a good name either.
Used to be, when someone mentioned them, I thought they were talking about some kind of German machine-pistol, like the MP5.
ObFurrfu: Furrfu.
Ah, that would likely be the famous "Corporate Edition" of XP that doesn't require activation.
*rubs beard thoughtfully*
They were checked for both mine and my roommate's accounts, and we've had ours for years.
Betcha MS will cut Office prices to compete, like they did vs. SmartSuite and PerfectOffice in the mid-'90s.
How's Office going for around $150 again sound?
Counterexample: Litestep, a free Explorer replacement that resembles NextStep and Window Maker.
Hoaxbusters is a pretty good site for just that. It just doesn't get much press.
They're cheap, too. Look around flea markets for old models. My first was $5 US, the other three $2.50 each. Or if you must have new ones, check Unicomp, and look at the Customizer.
MRE = "Meals Rejected by Ethiopians".
To be paranoid: Cutting off the Asian (and esp. China) because of spam may be exactly what the Chinese government wants - cf. their national firewall. Maybe agents of their government are behind much of the spam, or are forbidding ISPs from doing anything about it.
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Because it's often more convenient to just type in a command at the shell prompt when you know exactly which package you need (e.g. apt-get install python).
Damn, you kids are spoiled these days, expecting to have menus and coherent lists of things. In my day we 23$($*%NO CARRIER
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Perchance does Mandrake install a dhcp or bootp client by default? I have a sneaking suspicion that those wankers at the Uni switched to bootp without telling anyone.
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Could They(tm) implement this so that they have some idea of which links you click?
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Yes, we /did/ get planes up at Pearl Harbor. Several P-36s and a few P-40s did fight back, with limited success.
I also seem to recall a story about an SBD Dauntless dive bomber shooting down a Zero at that battle.
There were also about twelve unarmed B-17s flying in from California during the fight.
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Reference to a series of stories by Isaac Asimov.
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